All Features articles – Page 69
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Dev Patel talks 'Lion' and shrugging off "that chirpy guy from 'Marigold Hotel'"
UK actor Dev Patel fought hard for his place in Lion, keen to show he was more than “the chirpy guy from Marigold Hotel”. Now he has been nominated for an Oscar.
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'I, Daniel Blake' star Hayley Squires: “I can’t walk away from what’s happened in this film"
Bafta-nominated UK actress Hayley Squires talks to Dan Jolin about the life-changing effect of making I, Daniel Blake, the irony of walking the Cannes red carpet and chocolates on set each day.
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'45 Years' producer The Bureau talks new dark comedy-drama 'Daphne'
Screen sat down with the film’s creative team and star to discuss the project’s origins ahead of its world premiere at IFFR on Jan 29.
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IFFR: Bela Tarr interview - why he won’t return to feature filmmaking
The celebrated Hungarian director spoke to Screen after giving a masterclass at Rotterdam.
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French star Dany Boon on his new comedy 'Raid: Special Unit'
Actor-director Dany Boon tells us why he gave the starring role of his action comedy Raid: Special Unit to a woman.
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7 Asian and Middle Eastern films to tempt festival directors in 2017
Screen profiles some of the hottest projects from Asia, Middle East and North Africa in 2017.
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Villeneuve, producers on the making of $50m sci-fi 'Arrival'
How did a hot indie director and a producer of broad Hollywood comedies come together to make the cerebral sci-fi hit Arrival? Director Villeneuve and the film’s lead producers talk to Tom Grater.
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16 US and Latin American films to tempt festival directors in 2017
From Blade Runner to new films by George Clooney and Richard Linklater, these are the hottest projects from the US and Latin American to arrive in 2017.
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15 UK and Irish films to tempt festival directors in 2017
From Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here to Asif Kapadia’s Maradona doc, Screen profiles a selection of hot UK projects in 2017.
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Baftas 2017: the lowdown on all the British film nominees
We profile all the UK films that were nominated for the 2017 Baftas, from Fantastic Beasts to Florence Foster Jenkins.
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CES 2017 round-up: tech giants look beyond 4K and VR
The Consumer Electronics Show focused on augmented reality and 8K TVs.
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Exploring India's online youth content revolt
Screen looks into the blossoming world of youth-focused film content in the online Indian market.
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Rendez-vous with French Cinema 2017 preview
UniFrance’s annual Rendez-vous with French Cinema (January 12-16) is the first industry stop of the year for many European buyers.
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Are much shorter theatrical windows around the corner?
We investigate why cracks are beginning to appear in the traditionally rigid theatrical window structure.
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Screenwriter Luke Davies on how he avoided the "bad path" with 'Lion'
Writer discusses collaborating with director Garth Davis and avoiding sentimentality on the awards-contending drama.
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How the 'Fantastic Beasts' VFX team created a world of amazing monsters
For the first instalment in Warner Bros’ planned five-film follow-up to the Harry Potter franchise, the visual-effects team transposed JK Rowling’s wizarding world to 1926 New York City.
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2016 at the Russian box office: Hollywood fare dominates
The Russian box office is booming, but local films aren’t getting a look in.
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John Battsek talks Oscar-winning documentary career, future projects
What does it take to produce award-winning documentaries year after year? Two-time Oscar winner John Battsek talks to Geoffrey Macnab about story, scale and the one rule of financing he sets himself.
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2016 Nordic box office report: Local films hold their own
As is the case in recent years, Nordic audiences have continued to champion local films, often over Hollywood blockbusters.
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The story behind awards hopeful autism doc 'Life, Animated'
Making a documentary about how classic Disney movies helped a young autistic boy engage with the world proved a huge creative challenge for director Roger Ross Williams.